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Entries from April 2008
Match.com Q1 2008 Financials
April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Match.com Little Black Book Screenshots
April 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Perfectmatch Launches FaceBook Application
April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
PerfectMatch has launched the “What’s Your Personality Type” application on Facebook. The application is based on the Duet Total Compatibility System developed by Perfectmatch.com along with relationship expert Dr Pepper Schwartz. The test is based on over 30 years of real relationship science and provides unmatched information and insight about you and, for all you [...]
Tags: perfectmatchE-Cyrano is Getting Hitched
April 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Evan Katz, better known as E-Cyrano as well as a principal of Though Rocket is officially off the market. Congrats to Evan and his better half, both of whom I had the pleasure of spending time with in South Beach a few months ago. Please send me your little black book, I will provide shipping [...]
Cupidcast Internet Radio Launches
April 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Several weeks ago I was approached by a gentleman named Darwin Stephenson to participate in a new Internet radio show about dating.
Today I’m proud to announce the launch of CupidCast, the Internet Radio & Podcast Dating Show. CupidCast is part of the STUDIO [darwin] radio network.
CupidCast is a weekly Internet Radio Talk-Show and Podcast covering [...]
An Introduction to Twitter and Twitterdating
April 25th, 2008 · 5 Comments
I have spent an inordinate amount of time on Twitter lately. If you thought blogs sucked you into a vortex, just wait until you try Twitter. Follow me on Twitter.
I will attempt to describe Twitter. Many people have done a much better job.
A Twitter post is called a Tweet. Tweets are the same length as [...]
MySpace Apps Are Go For All Users
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments
MySpace officially opened its Application Gallery to all users this morning after launching it in public beta last March. In that time over 1,000 applications have been approved and added to the gallery and there have been over 2.1 million application installs across the site. Today, MySpace began promoting applications to users by adding an [...]
Tags: myspaceJDate is Now a Social Network?
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments
JDate, the leading online community for Jewish singles, has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Social Networking category in the 12th Annual Webby Awards.
Last time I checked JDate was a dating site. “J” for Jewish, “Date” for dating. Someone please explain this to me.
Are Dating Site Instant Messaging and Chat About to End?
April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Facebook chat is rolled out to just about everyone today. When chat is tied into Facebook dating applications things are going to get interesting. Reminds me of Userplane’s desktop presence if you have Facebook notifications turned on.
Conversation is getting broken down into increasingly smaller chunks. What is our attention threshold for paying attention to [...]
SinglesNet vs. Mate1 Advertising and Search Terms
April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Singlesnet is soundly thrashing Mate1 in the quest for online dating traffic dominance. We can thank Marc Porcelli, Chief Marketing Officer, for the babes at Singlesnet.
Even SinglesNet is advertising other dating sites now. Will people really going to go to a site called usearchlocal? Today I read some research that women respond to dating site [...]